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This Campaign Broke the U.S. Two-Party System
Many significant strains of political beliefs will be excluded unless Americans adopt government by coalition.
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Americans find it hard to imagine that the two-party system could ever break down. "Democracy works, this country works when you have two parties that are serious and trying to solve problems," President Barack Obama said recently. Yet U.S. democracy and the country itself would be better served if politicians started acting as if there were more parties -- which might be the case after this year's election.
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